PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Classical Conditioning, Latent Inhibition, Certified Emission Reduction
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Respondent conditioning in everyday life: 1) conditioned emotional responses. Factors and phenomena in respondent conditioning: 1) cs-us timing and intensity. Preparing to change a respondent behavior: 1) assessing respondent behaviors. Conditioned emotional responses: cr is an emotion (e. g. fear or anger). Researchers distinguish between two categories of fear: 1) phobia. The book uses fear interchangeably for these two terms. Phobia: intense and irrational fear of something specific. Anxiety: fear that has a vague or unspecified source. Role of direct and indirect experience in cers. Direct cers: when individual experiences cs and us firsthand. Indirect cers: when individual acquires a cer by observing other people in fearful situations (modeling) or by receiving fearful information about a situation. Role of biological processes in people"s development of cers: genetic twin studies confirmed in identical twins that fear was a genetic factor. Examples of respondent conditioning: asthma, chronic low back pain.
